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The EPA failed Flint. Now we know exactly how.
Eighty-seven complaints about water quality sent to the region's EPA were redirected or ignored.
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How California can make its cap-and-trade program more equitable
While overall emissions have dropped in California, some vulnerable communities are getting more air pollution than ever.
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Faced with asthma and illness, citizens are taking air quality into their own hands
Cheap sensors are democratizing air quality data.
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Democrats say Trump’s ‘culture of corruption’ is making people sick
Environment is part of the Democrats’ midterm message. The keyword isn’t climate, but “corruption.”
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How a hot city can keep its cool
Cities are getting deadly hot, but we have good ways to cool them down.
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New York’s hottest neighborhoods are taking on climate change’s deadliest threat
Extreme heat kills more than a hundred New Yorkers yearly. Here's how the city's tackling the problem in a warming world.
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Hurricane Maria evacuees worry about jobs, housing, and if they’ll ever go home
Forced from Puerto Rico as a result of the storm, displaced storm survivors face losing housing again.
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Minnesota just approved a new tar-sands pipeline. Activists say they will fight it.
Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 would run from Superior, Wisconsin, to Alberta, Canada.
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Hurry! Only a few days left to apply for Grist’s fall fellowship.
Procrastinators, fear not. You still have (a little) time to apply for Grist's fellowship.
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Supreme Court Justice Kennedy is retiring. Here’s what that means for the environment.
Over his 30-year tenure, Kennedy has been a mixed bag for environmentalists.
